The Teatro Colon de Buenos Aires will remain closed for renovations during 2009. However, the program of activities of the theater's companies continues at an alternative venue, the Teatro Coliseo, Marcelo T. de Alvear 1125. Tickets can only be purchased at the theater's box office, 9 am to 5 pm, two days prior to every performance.

I'm republishing this post since there have been some changes to the original schedule. The ballet Don Quixote has been replaced by Giselle.

This is the announced program for 2009:

Opera:

May 19, 22, 26
Jean D'Arc au Boucher (Juana de Arco en la Hoguera), by Arthur Honegger and Paul Claudel.
Orchestra conductor: John Neschling
Stage director: Roberto Plate

NOTICE: The performances of "The Abduction from the Seraglio" originally programmed for July have been rescheduled and will take place in September.

August 25, 28, 30
Orpheus and Eurydice (Orfeo y Eurídice), by Christoph W. Gluck and Raniero da Calzabigi
Orchestra conductor: Arnold Östman
Stage director: Roberto Oswald

September 27, 29, 30
The Abduction from the Seraglio (El rapto en el Serrallo), by Wolfgang A. Mozart and Gottlieb Stephanie.
Orchestra conductor: Michael Güttler
Stage director: Willy Landin

November 29, December 1, 5
The Two Foscaris (I due Foscari), by Giuseppe Verdi and Francesco Maria Piave.
Orchestra conductor: Carlos Vieu
Stage director: Mario Pontiggia

Ballet:

June 17, 18, 19Giselle
Music: Adolph Adam
Choreography: Lidia Segni after Marius Petipa

October 17, 27, 31. November 1
Don Quixote
Music: Ludwig Minkus
Choreography: Zarko Prebil, from the original by Marius Petipa

December 22, 23, 26
The Nutcracker (El Cascanueces)
Music: Piotr I. Tchaicovsky
Choreography: Rudolph Nureyev, from the original by Marius Petipa
Luna Park Stadium.

Concerts:

The Buenos Aires Philharmonic Orchestra, under musical direction by Maestro Arturo Diemecke, will offer a series of concerts throughout the year. On this season, the orchestra will pay homage to the following composers:
Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759) on 250 years of his death
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) on 200 years of his death
Félix Mendelssohn (1809-1977) on 200 years of his birth
Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909) on 100 years of his death
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) on 50 years of his death

The concerts will all take place at Teatro Coliseo, on the following dates:
May 14, 21, 28
June 4, 25
July 2
August 6, 13
September 10
October 1, 8, 29
November 5, 12
December 3

Visit Teatro Colon official website to see the full programs.

The Anne Frank House in Argentina was inaugurated on June 12, 2009, the day of her 80th birthday. It is located in Superi 2647, in the neighborhood of Belgrano, being the first institution member of the Anne Frank House in Latin America.

The house features an exact reproduction of the rooms in the original hiding place in Amsterdam where Anne Frank and other seven people went into hiding from the Nazis for more than two years, including the movable bookcase that served as entrance to the Secret Annex of the house, the kitchen, the bathroom, the living room, and Anne's complete bedroom, as well as a reproduction of her famous diary.
There's also a "Free2Choose" room, with an interactive film screening, made by the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, in which film clips are used to invite visitors to think about issues concerning human rights and freedoms.
The House offers guided visits, workshops and seminars aimed to educators, students and members of defense institutions.

Opening hours:  Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 2 PM to 6 PM.

Students and Seniors: AR$8,500.-

For more information on present and future exhibitions, visit Centro Ana Frank official website.

"La vuelta al Mundo en un violín" (Around the world in a violin) is a didactic musical show, in which a string orchestra, conducted by Sergio Feferovich, invites the audience to take part in a fantasy trip around classical music in a show for the whole family.

After the presentation of the chamber music orchestra and the individual introduction of its instruments, the audience is taken on a "journey" around the world through musical works from different countries, including England, Hungary, Austria, France, Greece, China, United States, Brazil, and Argentina, with themes by Mozart, Vivaldi, Strauss, Monti, Anderson, Gerra Peixe and Astor Piazzolla, among others.
Kids listen and participate of the show, with movements, clapping of their hands to the rhythm of music, or going on stage as "guest conductors".
Sergio Feferovich was born in Buenos Aires, graduated from the Fine Arts School of Universidad Nacional de La Plata, and got his Master Degree in Piano at the Catholic University of America (Washington, DC), Master in Orchestra Direction and Music Phd at Johns Hopkins University's Peabody Conservatory.

Location: Teatro Liceo. Av. Rivadavia 1499

Dates and hours:
Saturdays and Sundays, 4.00 PM

Tickets: AR$ 40 and $50, on sale at theater

The Museum of Reproductions and Comparative Sculpture “Ernesto de la Cárcova” was inaugurated in 1928, and named after the artist who was the founder and first director of the Fine Arts School and the National Academy of Fine Arts.
It is the oldest and most important museum of its kind in Latin America. Its value lies in the notable quality of the reproductions exhibited. The museum's collection is made up of die-cast copies or casts taken from the original pieces. Most of them, specially the ones from classic Greece, are first copies of the originals on exhibition at the British Museum, the Louvre, or L'Accademia in Florence.
This is one of the least visited museums in Buenos Aires, but one of the most important in terms of the value of its collections.

The Museum is divided into three rooms organized in a chronological order:

On the center of the first room, the imposing actual size figure of Michelangelo Buonarotti's "David" is surrounded by the "Slave"; Lorenzo de Medici "Il pensieroso"; "Moses" and the "Pieta", among other works from the Renaissance period.




The second room is mainly dedicated to Greek art, including the "Winged Victory of Samothrace"; the "Venus de Milo"; Apolonio's "Belvedere Torso"; sculptural groups from the Parthenon, that can be seen at the British Museum; “Afrodita and Dione”; “Ilisos”, and other classic Greek sculptures friezes.

The third room presents Egyptian, Assyrian, Indian and Pre Hispanic American art. On the wall, the "Zodiac of Dendera" is one of the most important pieces in the museum.

Museo de Calcos y Escultura Comparada "Ernesto de la Cárcova”
Location: Ave. España 1701 & Elvira Rawson de Dellepianne. Costanera Sur. Buenos Aires.

For more information visit Museo de la Cárcova official website.